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To the Editor: As a 30-year veteran of the New York Assembly and Senate, I agree with your description of a leadership-controlled Legislature that has made the state, once a model of progressive government, a prime example of how not to legislate...

October 25, 2002, Friday

The General Electric Company failed to disclose its New York State and local tax payments properly in a report to the Federal Government, says a state senator who questioned whether the company had paid any New York taxes at all. State Senator...

September 22, 1998, Tuesday

It is the time of year when Franz S. Leichter's colleagues in the State Senate ardently wish that he would disappear. As the legislative session lurches to an end and lawmakers try to rush through piles of complicated bills, Mr. Leichter, a...

June 17, 1998, Wednesday

Political functions often place an unlikely array of characters together in one room, a point underscored at a recent fund-raiser for Pedro Gautier Espada, the 24-year-old freshman City Councilman from the Bronx. In one corner of Alex & Henry's...

As a liberal Democrat serving for the past 24 years in New York's Republican-controlled State Senate, Franz Leichter could not do much to control the flow of legislation. But Mr. Leichter, who will retire at the end of the year from his Manhattan...

While it has been only days since State Senator Franz S. Leichter announced that he would not seek re-election this year, the race for his seat has been under way, full throttle, for months. One aspirant, Jerry H. Goldfeder, had his news release...

State Senator Franz S. Leichter, a Democrat who has represented his Manhattan district since 1974, announced today that he would not seek re-election this year. Mr. Leichter, 67, said that he had had some discussion with the White House about a...

April 21, 1998, Tuesday

In part, yesterday's gathering on the Hudson River was a carefully staged media event. There were people pretending to fish, a kayaker bouncing in the chilly Hudson and a soulful folk singer providing earnest inspiration. But it was also the sort of...

A longtime Republican officeholder should not be allowed to receive a pension while serving as a State Court of Claims judge, two Democratic state senators said yesterday. Andrew P. O'Rourke, a former Westchester County executive and the...

January 29, 1998, Thursday

A New York state senator called on a Federal securities board yesterday to expand a three-year-old rule that bars direct campaign contributions to candidates from firms dealing in municipal securities. State Senator Franz S. Leichter, a Manhattan...